:ext authentication

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Helix

over 3 years ago

Hi,

We use :ext and ssh for authentication on the HelixCommunity CVS server. We use a ssh key pair to complete the authentication between the client and server. We do not use pserver at all. Is it possible for you to add :ext (ssh) authentication to your crawler?

Our process is outlined here: https://common.helixcommunity.org/2004/devdocs/quickstart

Thanks, Rishi.

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Jason Allen

over 3 years ago

Hi Helix,

I believe Robin answered your question via email - is that correct? The reason I ask is that Robin is on vacation this week and I want to make sure your problem was handled.

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noelbush

over 3 years ago

What was the answer? I have the same need. My CVS repository only supports ext ssh authentication.

Also, your site is rejecting our anonymous username, which is "cvs-anon", saying "The username may contain only A-Z, a-z, 0-9, and underscore (_)." But this is incorrect -- a hyphen is a perfectly valid character in a username.

Thanks!

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Robin Luckey

over 3 years ago

I'm afraid the answer at this time is a polite, "Sorry, we can't do that yet."

Over time we're definitely going to expand the number of source code repository formats we accept, prioritized by the number of requests we get.

I'll check the validation on CVS usernames. You're right -- a hyphen should be OK.

Thanks Robin

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David Bateman

over 3 years ago

Can I add another request for the :ext CVS repository type as I also can't add a project because of this...

Thanks David

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Tobu

over 3 years ago

Just hit that limitation. When that's fixed, you'll be able to add openssh (the portable, non-openbsd distribution): cvs -d :ext:anoncvs@anoncvs.mindrot.org:/cvs co openssh

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laffer1

over 3 years ago

I would also like to see ssh based cvs access. My repo only uses ssh

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indeyets

over 2 years ago

(bumping up) any news on this subject?

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Robin Luckey

over 2 years ago

No news on this front. IIRC, this requires us to install pre-shared keys on our server farm?

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David Bateman

over 2 years ago

Why does this require pre-shared keys to be installed on your server? Yes I understand that would be the case for non anonymous use of the :ext extension, but for anoncvs it shouldn't matter..

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